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Is it possible?  Are we almost done?  After eighteen days of going without an estimate of when they would be finished with our repairs, and thinking we were going to be stuck until early January, suddenly they say we'll be ready to go in a day or two.  The slow and unsure work of the ceiling repair really picked up pace once all the new panels had spent their requisite 24 hours under pressure (one at a time) to let the adhesive cure.   Taking pressure. Custom built frame and jacks to apply upward pressure  on the new 'Soft-Touch' ceiling panels. But that is a bit of oversimplification, there were a lot of steps to do both before and after the affixing of the ceiling "soft-touch" panels.  Mold abatement was done and then a coating of Kilz was applied to fend off any future spore growth.  Every panel had to be custom cut to fit the space as well as accommodate every air conditioner duct and ceiling puck light, of which there are many. And because of...

  So, here we are again, Junction City, KS, home of New Horizons, manufacturer of 5th wheels and maintenance facility.  Sadly we know this place well as we have been here three times in the past ten years prior to this visit, each averaging about a month to get our repairs done.  This time looks to be no different, with the exception that we are in freezing winter rather than scorching summer. But.... that was the purpose behind our departure from Georgia in mid-October.  We had been suffering from water intrusion that ultimately had damaged three-fifths of the ceiling of our galley/living area.  The leak was insidious, it remained hidden from view for an unknown period of time (at least a year) before a stain finally penetrated several layers of ceiling material and showed itself.  The hunt for the source of the leak commenced but no amount of caulking/re-caulking all the seams of the roof made any difference, the stain continued to expand.  And betwe...

 Hello Dallas-Ft Worth. Or to be more specific, Lake Lewisville in a Corps of Engineers campground. In preparation of our approximately 5 hour drive from Livingston, Tx to Hickory Creek, Tx (the town associated with the campground) we put away in the cargo trailer the few things we got out for our six week stay and got the cargo trailer hitched up to Pepe the night before departure. The morning of our departure the weather was cooperative and it was just a matter of disconnecting the utilities, pulling in the slides and hitching up.  The roads were essentially interstate the whole way with I-45 being what we spent most of our time on.  The one unpleasantness in this simple plan was that our route went smack-dab through the center of Dallas and its intense traffic.  Traversing the city also required a bit of a "dance", switching from I-45 N to I-30 W to I-35E N with the switch from 30 to 35E being in the middle of a bowl of spaghetti of multiple highways going in all ...

  The time for us to depart Livingston is rapidly approaching and we still have things we want to do and see.  So we're getting some timed entry tickets for the Johnson Space Center.  Even though by all appearances COVID is something that is being learned to live with, the Space Center is still following guidelines to minimize crowds.  They only have a certain number of tickets per day and each of those tickets are timed for entry, spread across the whole day.  Visitors are not limited to how long they can stay once they are in, they just can't come in before their scheduled time.  We're going to see and do everything we can so we snagged tickets for the opening hour and then went straight to the front desk to sign up for the different guided tours. After that there was plenty of time to take in the main gallery where there were displays of actual space capsules, satellites and moon lander and large scale models of space stations. The exhibits, many of them...